Planters' Package Co. v. Parsons

Griffith,, J.

Appellant sued appellee for actual damages and for the statutory penalty on account of the unauthorized cutting by appellee of' three hundred and sixty trees on the lands of appellant. The parties were adjoining proprietors, the land owned by appellee having for some years been known as the McLemore place. This place had, for a long time, been under fence, and, when appellee purchased the property, he was given to understand that the line separating his land from that of appellant was the fence aforesaid; and, when he sent his employees to cut the timber on his land, he…